Game Of Lulz: The Internet’s Best Reactions To This Week’s ‘Game Of Thrones’

This week’s batch of reactions to Game of Thrones is predictably excellent given the subject matter. The internet had A LOT to work with. There are plenty of variations of the same jokes out there, so per usual I’ve just gone with the one I liked best. Don’t use grainy images guy who made the joke first. Geez.

I know this is all fun and games, but the no helmet stuff is getting way overblown on the internets this week. The Mountain crushed a man’s skull with his bare hands. Are we really to believe that he couldn’t have managed to remove a helmet and THEN crushed the skull with his bare hands?

Hence the point that Oberyn was only lightly armoured which kept him fast and mobile vs. the Mountain who was wearing full plate armor which made him nearly invincible but also fairly slow and easy to tire against an opponent that constantly moved in his blind spot.

Short of the shock ending, I honestly didn’t find the duel that well choreographed/exciting, compared to what they hyped it up to be and what you could potentially do with it. See e.g. something like the duel in Troy with Achilles vs. Hector or even something as subtle and realistic as the end of Rob Roy.

@Rapax I’m with you. Oberyn did some cool moves, but this was hardly an epic battle for the ages – I think Sandor in the inn wins most badass fight scene of the season, unless something in the next two weeks tops it. I also thought the gore was way unnecessary and added nothing but nausea to the scene.

The Hound’s inn fight (especially for the knife throw the eyes and face THRICE), Jon Snow vs Karl (especially for the sword throw the back of the head straight out of the mouth) and possibly Ramsay Snow/Bolton vs Theon’s/Reek’s sister (because Ramsay is my favourite) were all great. but non of them ended with a big fan favourite getting his eyes gauged out and his head crushed WITH BARE HANDS, and then another HUGE series favourite after him getting judged to die.

I mean, I know Doran Martell is supposed to be older and crippled, and Quentyn will be fairly young, but can’t we bring Pascal back in another role, even with heavy makeup to obscure his appearance? The dude is freaking awesome. Like Oberyn in the books he burned bright and fast and was gone before we knew it.

He didn’t mean the country. Just that there are two kinds of Greeks: socials and greasers. The actor who plays Littlefinger is Greek. So does that piece of it mean he’s a social or a greaser? That’s what he doesn’t get.

I’ve pretty much tired of this bullshit. 4 seasons worth of sand being poured down my throat and being stabbed in the sides. Fuck it, I’m withdrawing from the GoT phenomenon. Let me know when GRRM finishes the next book, I’ll read the plot on Wikipedia and call it a day.

I’m not doing this anymore. And I say this as someone who knew how the fight was going to end.

@Maccaveli That kind of ties into my question. What brings people to a forum about a topic just for them to say I don’t like this or I’m not watching it anymore? Who’s feelings do they think they are hurting?

For instance when I hate something, like say the westboro baptist church, I just ignore it. Life is so much less stressful that way.

Robin Williams is taking anything that’s thrown at him these days. After a pair of failed marriages, and about a decade on the bench, he needs the money. I fear he will become the Willy Lohman of comics turned actors.